Shelley Winters: Two-Time Oscar-Winning Actress Dies at 85

Shelley Winters was an American actress with a career spanning seven decades. Born Shirley Schrift on August 18, 1920, in St. Louis, Missouri, she grew up in Brooklyn and studied at the Actors Studio.

Winters won Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch of Blue (1965). Her other films included A Place in the Sun, The Night of the Hunter, Lolita and The Poseidon Adventure. She later played Roseanne's grandmother on the sitcom Roseanne.

She was married four times, including to Italian actor Vittorio Gassman, and had one daughter, Vittoria. She married Gerry DeFord hours before her death. Winters died of heart failure in Beverly Hills on January 14, 2006, at age 85.

Achievements: Two Academy Awards, Golden Globe, Emmy.

Birth: August 18, 1920 - St. Louis, Missouri.

Profession: Actress.

Interesting Facts: She donated her first Oscar to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.